In the January-April period of this year, the value-added industrial output of the ferrous metal smelting and rolling sector in China recorded a year-on-year rise of 6.2 percent, as announced by China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on May 19.
In the given period, China’s overall value-added industrial output increased by 6.4 percent year on year. In April alone, the overall value-added industrial output rose by 0.22 percent month on month and by 6.1 percent year on year.
In the first four months of the year, the value-added industrial outputs in the mining and manufacturing sectors moved up by 6.0 percent and by 7.1 percent year on year, respectively.